The Professional Competency Of Nurse In Meeting The Spiritual Needs Of Hospitalized Patients

Abstract

Professional nurse has skill to meeting bio-psycho-socio-spiritual patient needs during hospitalized. Nurses often ignore to fulfillment in nursing care practice. This study aims to describe the nurse competency in meeting spiritual patient need during care. So, the patient spiritual needs are not met. This aims of study was to describe competence in meeting the patient spiritual needs during care. The design study was descriptive. Samples were 40 nurses who worked in 5 wards at the hospital. They were selected by simple random sampling. The data collection used Spiritual Care Competence Scale (SCCS) assessment tool consisst 27 questions that’s into 6 grouped with Likert scale. Data conducted on May 1st – 17th, 2014. Data analysis used descriptive statistics.Results showed 10% nurses (4 persons) was competent to capable in meeting the spiritual needs of hospitalized patients, while 3 nurses educated of 3rd nursing diploma and one’s educated bachelor of nursing. And 90% nurses (36 persons) was unable to meet the patient spiritual needs i.e. not remind time of religious activities, not counseling of religious need during care, and not provide assistance patient with religious leader. Consequently of nurse inability to meet the spiritual needs, the family and the patient were unable to perform religious activities and accept self-condition during care.